"The Only Exception" - Paramore

[The Music Man]

No thread for this, huh? After quietly climbing the Pop chart for the past few months, this gained a lot of momentum this week, including a Top 30 entry, a +400 bullet, and adds from Z100 and KIIS. I found this boring until recently and still prefer their Riot! hits; however, this is slowly but surely growing on me. I wouldn't mind it pulling a Shontelle and ultimately scraping the Top 10.

[Grenade]

This is my second favorite single by them behind "That's What You Get."

[irice22]

KIIS added this? You're kidding.

This is a good song. I'm surprised their songs from Riot! didn't make them a Top 10 pop artist.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

This is really boring to me.

I doubt this would be a hit at all were it not for "Airplanes."

[H.A.T.E. U]

Boring song, but her voice sounds SO MUCH like Avril. I wonder how Avril would've sounded on a track like "Airplanes."

[Someone Like You]

Jul 4, 2010 1:46:05 GMT -5 Grenade said:

This is my second favorite single by them behind "Misery Business"

[DaveZ35]

Top 20 on Pop radio. They can thank "Airplanes".

On first listen this sounds really boring. But I sense it's a grower. I'll be singing a different tune a week from now. I haven't heard this on the radio yet.

[The Music Man]

I don't get why everyone is simply attributing this song's success to "Airplanes." It's a solid CHR-friendly record in itself that was hanging around until "Airplanes" took off (no pun intended), and they had two Top 20 hits with their last album.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

All of their Pop releases flopped from this era and this song itself is really plain and bland. It seemed to get a kickstart only after "Airplanes" was established.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

#29 on iTunes

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

How the hell did this wind up with a +694 bullet?

[Someone Like You]

It's a nice song, and a good break from a lot of the dance music. I can see its appeal.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Farro and company think it's "cool" to have a broader pop hit on their hands, though he says "The Only Exception" isn't necessarily a song he expected to be part of the group's gold-certified third album, "Brand New Eyes," which came out in September.


"It was only like a minute-30 (seconds) and we were going to keep it like an interlude or something," says Farro. "We weren't gonna make it a song. But our producer (Rob Cavallo) and label were like, 'You should finish that song. It's really good,' so Hayley and I just sat down with it and finished it, and it turned out great."